The Crypto Burn Book

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news Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten has launched its own exchange for crypto spot trading. Announced Monday, Rakuten Wallet has gone live for trading in bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and bitcoin cash (BCH) against the Japanese yen via an Android mobile app. An iOS app is due to be released in the future, though no set timeline…

Sep 24, 2020 at 15:54 UTC(Rudy and Peter Skitterians / Pixabay )Bitcoin Options Open Interest Hits Record High in Expiry WeekOpen interest in bitcoin options has risen to new record highs this week. But the market will witness $1 billion in notional value expiring Friday, which could trigger heightened volatility.A record $2.14 billion worth of…

Blockchain network IOTA will debut the first public IOTA Smart Contracts (ISC) and a related token on Thursday, developers told CoinDesk. The move comes after months of testing.These contracts will be released on ShimmerEVM, an Ethereum-compliant blockchain. ShimmerEVM is part of Shimmer, an IOTA ecosystem blockchain that allows developers to build applications and use features

Oct 14, 2020 at 15:37 UTCUpdated Oct 14, 2020 at 15:54 UTCVitalik Buterin at DEVCON 2018 (Ethereum)In the face of Ethereum’s recent rocketing transaction fees, its founder and chief scientist, Vitalik Buterin, called on users of the second-largest blockchain to move over to scaling solutions that are “already here for many classes of applications.”Buterin took…

ProShares, the sponsor of the first-ever exchange-traded fund (ETF) backed by bitcoin futures, has applied for a waiver to limits the amount of bitcoin futures a buyer can purchase in the new fund, Barron’s reported.Starting with the November front-month contract, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) will limit the amount of futures that a buyer can…

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Feb 13, 2020 at 20:00 UTCUpdated Feb 13, 2020 at 20:46 UTCThe US Government’s Mixed Signals on Digital Currency PrivacyTo look at the U.S. government, it is the best of times and the worst of times for personal financial privacy. For early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify,…

Bitcoin (BTC) held steady around $63,700 in the aftermath of the cryptocurrency's fourth halving, an event that upends the economics for the miners who power the Bitcoin ecosystem.BTC recently barely moved from its level right before the 840,000th Bitcoin block was mined just as Saturday began in UTC time. Bitcoin had slumped as low as